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Best of 2020 - Adult Fiction
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Michael Zapata
(1,590)
Summary: The story of a Latin American science fiction writer and the lives her lost manuscript unite in post-Katrina New Orleans. In 1929 in New Orleans, a Dominican immigrant named Adana Moreau writes a...
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Call #: F ZAPATA
Location: Adult Displays - Near New Arrivals
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Hari Kunzru
(1,388)
Summary: After receiving a prestigious writing fellowship in Germany, the narrator of "Red Pill" arrives in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee and struggles to accomplish anything at all. Instead of working on the...
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Call #: F KUNZRU
Location: Adult Displays - Near New Arrivals
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Phan Quê Mai Nguyẽ̂n
(8,466)
Summary: The multigenerational tale of the Trà̂n family, set against the backdrop of the Việt Nam War. Trà̂n Diệu Lan, who was born in 1920, was forced to flee her family farm with her six...
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Call #: F NGUYEN
Location: New Adult Fiction
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Amy Jo Burns
(2,281)
Summary: An hour from the closest West Virginia mining town, fifteen-year-old Wren Bird lives in a cloistered mountain cabin with her parents. They have no car, no mailbox, and no visitors -- except for her...
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Call #: F BURNS
Location: New Adult Fiction
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Maggie O'Farrell
(27,274)
Summary: A short, piercing, deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare's 11 year old son Hamnet -- a name interchangeable with Hamlet in 15th century Britain -- and the years leading up to the...
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Call #: F O'FARRELL
Location: New Adult Fiction
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Brandon Taylor
(11,461)
Summary: A novel of rare emotional power that excavates the social intricacies of a late-summer weekend -- and a lifetime of buried pain. Almost everything about Wallace, an introverted African-American...
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Call #: F TAYLOR
Location: Adult Displays - Near New Arrivals
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Bryan Washington
(8,287)
Summary: Mike is a Japanese American chef at a Mexican restaurant. Benson is a Black day care teacher. They've been together for a few years, but now they're not sure why they're still a couple. There's the...
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Call #: F WASHINGTON
Location: New Adult Fiction
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Danielle Evans
(5,262)
Summary: Evans zooms in on particular moments and relationships in her characters' lives in a way that allows them to speak to larger issues of race, culture, and history. She introduces us to Black and...
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Call #: F EVANS
Location: New Adult Fiction
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Jacqueline Woodson
(4,153)
Summary: For as long as ZJ can remember, his dad has been everyone's hero. As a charming, talented pro football star, he's as beloved to the neighborhood kids as he is to his millions of adoring sports fans....
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Call #: YA CD BOOK F WOODSON
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Lydia Millet
(7,163)
Summary: This novel follows a group of children and their families on summer vacation at a lakeside mansion. The teenage narrator Eve and the other children are contemptuous of their parents, who spend the...
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Call #: F MILLET
Location: New Adult Fiction
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Tana French
Summary: Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a bucolic Irish village would be the perfect escape. After twenty-five years in the Chicago police force and a bruising divorce, he just wants to build a new life...
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Call #: PLAYAWAY F FRENCH
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Alix E. Harrow
(8,875)
Summary: In the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history. In 1893, there's no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now...
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Call #: F HARROW
Location: Adult Displays - Near New Arrivals
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Sigrid Nunez
(3,455)
Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER "As good as The Friend , if not better." — The New York Times "Impossible to put down ... leavened with wit and tenderness."— People "I was dazed by the novel; s...
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Alix E. Harrow
Summary: In the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history in Alix E. Harrow; s powerful novel of magic and the suffragette movement. In 1893, there; s no such thing as witches....
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Sue Miller
(7,512)
Summary: "A sensual and perceptive novel. . . . With humor and humanity, Miller resists the simple scorned-wife story and instead crafts a revelatory tale of the complexities—and the...
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Bryan Washington
(8,025)
Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER A GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick! “Truly unlike anything I; ve read before. Bryan Washington; s take on love, family, and responsibility is as complicated and true as...
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Elena Ferrante
Summary: Soon to be a NETFLIX Original Series. A POWERFUL NEW NOVEL set in a divided Naples by ELENA FERRANTE, the New York Times best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter . "There; s...
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Isabel Allende
(39,328)
Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of The House of the Spirits, this epic novel spanning decades and crossing continents follows two young people as they flee the aftermath of the...
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Marilynne Robinson
Summary: This program includes a bonus conversation with the author. Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, returns to the world of Gilead with Jack, the latest...
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Ayad Akhtar
(4,181)
Summary: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Disgraced and author of American Dervish, an American son and his immigrant father search for belonging — in post-Trump America, and with each other. A...
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Shari Lapena
(19,889)
Summary: AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! " The End of Her will keep you guessing right up to the end . . . once you pick it up, you will not want to put down." —USA Today The new domestic suspense...
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Akwaeke Emezi
(14,626)
Summary: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR; S CHOICE "Electrifying." — O Magazine Named one of the year; s most anticipated books by The New York Times , Elle , Harper; s Bazaar,...
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Ottessa Moshfegh
(8,568)
Summary: "[An] intricate and unsettling new novel . . . Death in Her Hands is not a murder mystery, nor is it really a story about self-deception or the perils of escapism. Rather, it; s a haunting meditation...
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K-ming Chang
(633)
Summary: Three generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in this spellbinding, visceral debut about one family’s queer desires, violent impulses, and buried...
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Hank Green
(15,681)
Summary: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Who has the right to change the world forever? How will we live online? How do we find comfort in an increasingly isolated world? The Carls disappeared the same...
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Sigrid Nunez
(3,455)
Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER "As good as The Friend , if not better." — The New York Times "Impossible to put down ... leavened with wit and tenderness."— People "I was dazed by the novel; s...
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Susanna Clarke
(26,230)
Summary: New York Times Bestseller! From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell , an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality. Piranesi; s house...
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Alix E. Harrow
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Summary: In the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history in Alix E. Harrow; s powerful novel of magic and the suffragette movement. In 1893, there; s no such thing as witches....
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Marilynne Robinson
(2,527)
Summary: A New York Times bestseller Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, returns to the world of Gilead with Jack, the latest novel in one of the great works of...
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Ayad Akhtar
Summary: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Disgraced and American Dervish : an immigrant father and his son search for belonging — in post-Trump America, and with each other. "Passionate,...
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Akwaeke Emezi
(14,626)
Summary: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR; S CHOICE "Electrifying." — O Magazine Named one of the year; s most anticipated books by The New York Times , Elle , Harper; s Bazaar,...
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Ottessa Moshfegh
(8,568)
Summary: "[An] intricate and unsettling new novel . . . Death in Her Hands is not a murder mystery, nor is it really a story about self-deception or the perils of escapism. Rather, it; s a haunting meditation...
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K-ming Chang
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Summary: Three generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in this spellbinding, visceral debut about one family’s queer desires, violent impulses, and buried...
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Hank Green
(15,681)
Summary: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Who has the right to change the world forever? How will we live online? How do we find comfort in an increasingly isolated world? The Carls disappeared the same...
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Jonathan Lethem
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Summary: Before the Arrest, Sandy Duplessis had a reasonably good life as a screenwriter in L.A. An old college friend and writing partner, the charismatic and malicious Peter Todbaum, had become one of the...
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Call #: F LETHEM
Location: New Adult Fiction
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Rumaan Alam
(34,225)
Summary: Amanda and Clay head to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good...
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Call #: F ALAM
Location: New Adult Fiction
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Tana French
(30,118)
Summary: Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a bucolic Irish village would be the perfect escape. After twenty-five years in the Chicago police force and a bruising divorce, he just wants to build a new life...
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Call #: CD BOOK F FRENCH
Location: New Adult CD Books Fiction
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Micaiah Johnson
(8,960)
Summary: Multiverse travel is finally possible, but there's just one catch: no one can visit a world where their counterpart is still alive. Cara's parallel selves happen to be exceptionally good at dying:...
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Call #: F JOHNSON
Location: Adult Displays - Near New Arrivals
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Susanna Clarke
(24,765)
Summary: Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within...
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Call #: F CLARKE
Location: Adult Displays - Near New Arrivals
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Tana French
(29,790)
Summary: A New York Times Bestseller "This hushed suspense tale about thwarted dreams of escape may be her best one yet...its own kind of masterpiece." —Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post A "taut,...
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